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Introducing Chromebooks

Chromebooks are a faster and fairly inexpensive computer that start up in less than 7 seconds, offer thousands of web-based apps, have built-in virus protection, and can easily synchronization to Google’s cloud and burgeoning services infrastructure. In this webinar:
 Learn Chromebook specifications.
 Understand how to use a Chromebook.
 Discover how to install Linux and dual boot.
 Determine if Chromebooks are a good fit for your library.

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… is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google to work
primarily with web applications and consists almost entirely of the
Google Chrome web browser. More info at: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

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Dual-booting Linux on a Chromebook
Step One: Enable Developer Mode
Important: this will wipe your local data, so make sure to back anything up that you don't have stored in the cloud.
• Press and hold the Esc and Refresh keys while pressing the Power
button to reboot your Chromebook into Recovery Mode.
• Recovery Mode pops up — press Ctrl+D (Developer Mode)
• It will return to the screen with the red exclamation point. Leave it
alone until it reboots into Chrome OS.
Note: some older Chromebooks have a physical switch that you'll have to flip in order to turn on Developer Mode
More info: http://goo.gl/LGCc2k